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upstater said:
Am I the only one who absolutely loves to see the ACC and B12 get screwed royally?
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Be careful about where you find enjoyment.

At the moment it appears to be only impacting football but in time it will spread. One major reason there has been discussion on expanding the tournament is because the P-2 will expect 60+% of their conference to make the dance every year, even after each exceeds 20 members. A large part of their plan is to marginalize the other conferences (included the other members of the current P-6).

With the additional revenues, they'll be able to slowly build separation in men's hoops as well. Alabama anbd Auburn were never basketball powers yet they past few years each has fielded teams that spent time in the top five and have been as talented as the top few schools in the country. Give members of the B1G and SEC a decade or so with the obscene projected revenue gap and it will be far easier for them to build solid programs while many top schools outside the P-2 slowly shrink their budgets.
 
upstater said:
Am I the only one who absolutely loves to see the ACC and B12 get screwed royally?
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You’re not alone. I love how the media big-heads are NOW ringing the alarm bells. No one shed a tear for the Old Big East. A little whimper last summer for the PAC. Too late. Let the whole system collapse and let football break off into NFL-Lite.
 
superjohn said:
I've been trying to tell people forever it's not power 5 or power 4, it's power 2. Uconn football is screwed but so are a bunch of other football programs all around the country.
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True. UConn being screwed isnt that big of a deal when 40 other programs around our caliber are also screwed.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Be careful about where you find enjoyment.

At the moment it appears to be only impacting football but in time it will spread. One major reason there has been discussion on expanding the tournament is because the P-2 will expect 60+% of their conference to make the dance every year, even after each exceeds 20 members. A large part of their plan is to marginalize the other conferences (included the other members of the current P-6).

With the additional revenues, they'll be able to slowly build separation in men's hoops as well. Alabama anbd Auburn were never basketball powers yet they past few years each has fielded teams that spent time in the top five and have been as talented as the top few schools in the country. Give members of the B1G and SEC a decade or so with the obscene projected revenue gap and it will be far easier for them to build solid programs while many top schools outside the P-2 slowly shrink their budgets.
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It will be hard for them to completely isolate the BE, which has won 8 of the past 25 championships. Or 9 if you count the one removed from Louisville.
 
Of course it will spread.

The bigger conferences will seek ways to corner the media dollars for themselves. They know that in the near future all of these athletes will be on their payroll.

Hopefully the Big East will be south of the wall.
 
ZooCougar said:
Of course it will spread.

The bigger conferences will seek ways to corner the media dollars for themselves. They know that in the near future all of these athletes will be on their payroll.

Hopefully the Big East will be south of the wall.
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The Big East is actually in a great position to get swallowed up as part of their cartel. They don't have to feed them with football dollars but they get a whole region of the country and more programming in the winter.
 
JMick said:
The Big East is actually in a great position to get swallowed up as part of their cartel. They don't have to feed them with football dollars but they get a whole region of the country and more programming in the winter.
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If at the end of all this there's an appetite for watching college sports in the entire northeast and the Pacific coast, I'll be amazed.
 
upstater said:
If at the end of all this there's an appetite for watching college sports in the entire northeast and the Pacific coast, I'll be amazed.
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The Northeast has never been a part of the college football word, those college basketball fans aren't going away.
 
noeynox said:
If you don't count Syracuse, Pitt and Penn State as the northeast your right. Cuse with Don McPherson and Donovan McNabb had some great teams.
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BC too
 
upstater said:
If at the end of all this there's an appetite for watching college sports in the entire northeast and the Pacific coast, I'll be amazed.
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Certainly has potential to be that way. The power 2 has gotten way out ahead of themselves because they see all the money and power.
 
JMick said:
The Big East is actually in a great position to get swallowed up as part of their cartel. They don't have to feed them with football dollars but they get a whole region of the country and more programming in the winter.
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No. Cartels don't like to share. They're getting past the stage of conscientious forethought and moving into the two ton gorilla phase.
 
JMick said:
The Big East is actually in a great position to get swallowed up as part of their cartel. They don't have to feed them with football dollars but they get a whole region of the country and more programming in the winter.
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Why would they want to dilute their basketball with more mouths to feed?
 
John said:
Why would they want to dilute their basketball with more mouths to feed?
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Because they'd presumably be paid more for more content. It's not like the basketball only teams would get paid much.
 
John said:
Why would they want to dilute their basketball with more mouths to feed?
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If they know what they are doing they would actually be making their basketball more concentrated rather than diluted. Bring in more sugar than water.
 
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